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So, after all the excitement of seeing those new trailers and that wondrous box art by Nomura himself, I decided to give another go at creating a concept of the Kingdom Hearts III title screen. I did do one awhile back that basically tried to replicate the style of title screen seen in KH 0.2, however after some more artwork came out fro TGS I decided to see if I could make one with illustrated art and well here are the results:
https://youtu.be/oRlSQdidplA

Famitsu have recently posted their full interview with Kingdom Hearts series director Tetsuya Nomura online! This interview was previously published in the July 5 issue of Famitsu Weekly; however, it was not published in full.
We have already translated some parts of the interview (which you can read here and here); find the rest below!
Translations have been provided by KH13 Staff Mio-chan and NihonScribe, and Katie Armstrong and Keytotruth.
You can read the rest of the interview in full below.
In the light of these new remarks, what are you most excited about in Kingdom Hearts III? Let us know in the comments!
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Multiplayer.it, an Italian press magazine about videogames, had the chance to interview Tetsuya Nomura, director and creator of the Kingdom Hearts saga. Nomura not only gave some personal insights on the working procedures of the development team behind Kingdom Hearts III, but also some information on his personal and professional career in Square (and Square Enix). The interview also includes some observations on the lastest Kingdom Hearts III stuff released and on the E3 trailers. The interview has been fully translated by the KH13 News Team Stuff @Yoshirai, and you can check it here below:
Kingdom Hearts III releases on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One on January 25, 2019 in Japan, and January 29, 2019 to the rest of the world. You can now watch the latest Frozen trailer, Square Enix E3 Showcase trailer, and Pirates of the Caribbean trailer!
What are your thoughts on Nomura's reveals on the hidden sides of his team work and their procedures? Be sure to let us know in the comments!

Multiplayer.it, an Italian press magazine about videogames, had the chance to interview Tetsuya Nomura, director and creator of the Kingdom Hearts saga. Nomura not only gave some personal insights on the working procedures of the development team behind Kingdom Hearts III, but also some information on his personal and professional career in Square (and Square Enix). The interview also includes some observations on the lastest Kingdom Hearts III stuff released and on the E3 trailers. The interview has been fully translated by the KH13 News Team Stuff @Yoshirai, and you can check it here below:
Kingdom Hearts III releases on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One on January 25, 2019 in Japan, and January 29, 2019 to the rest of the world. You can now watch the latest Frozen trailer, Square Enix E3 Showcase trailer, and Pirates of the Caribbean trailer!
What are your thoughts on Nomura's reveals on the hidden sides of his team work and their procedures? Be sure to let us know in the comments!
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So after reading the Kingdom Hearts 3 Premiere Event Recap, something Nomura said surprised me. When asked about the tone for KH3, specifically relating to its ending, he said this. "If you have been playing Kingdom Hearts Union χ[cross] on your mobile platform, you would know that we have foreshadowed that light will be defeated by darkness. So you may see what happens with that being foreshadowed. I actually do believe it may have some kind of a "difficult ending" that you may find a bit difficult to grasp. It depends on whether or not everyone can go against all odds and overcome what's being foretold." From what he's saying here, is he hinting that Light will indeed fall into Darkness, as Xehanort has been wanting all this time? Could it be that, at the end, Sora does succeed in defeating Xehanort, but in the end, ends up losing all the worlds to darkness? That's the feeling I'm getting from his comments. What do y'all think?

So I have been thinking alot about the Rapunzel world lately and I think I know exactly how the story In this world will happen. If I am right you can send me a cookie in a year (hopefully just a year)
so here it goes, we start the level by arriving at rapunzels tower not knowing were they are Sora and his friends decide to look inside the tower, there we find mother Gothel how just has found out that rapunzel is gone.
Being mother gothel she tells us "oh Pleaaaassse help me my dearest daughter is gone help me! I am just a poor loving mother"
our heros than go into the woods and follow rapunzel long hair that is like a red...well yellow line. After fighting countless heartless we find Rapunzel and Eugene. Rapunzel tells us about her dream, hearing how important it is for her to see the floating lights the gang tells her that they will help her to get to the city and protect her from the heartless. Eugene could than become a Party member as I have no clue how they would pull off Rapunzel. We than would also see some of mother gothels attemps to stop us by using the heartless.
while we travel with her she tells us about her live inside the tower and sora begins to questions mother gothels true motives.
They arrive in the city and than have to defend it from more attacking heartless. When the it begins to get dark the three decide to leave eugene and Rapunzel alone and watch the lights somewhere else. Than mother gothel kidnaps Rapunzel and ties eugene to the boat.
The next morning we help him get out of Prison, he tells us that he is a thieve and stole the crown. We than go and save rapunzel and the level ends with mother gothel as the endboss atleast I hope we can fight her personaly instead of fighting some heartless and than see her die in a cutscene because this woman evil incarnate and I want the satisfaction to punch her in the face! Than Sora and his friends leave having learned a very important lesson not everyone who is close to you has good intentions, evil can wear a mask (which ties into the whole Xehanort birth by sleep story)
so what do you think? Could this be The exact Plot of this level? Will we look back on this thread when KH3 comes out and be amazed how accurate it is? Let me hear it.

I understand time travel in Dream Drop Distance for the most part, but there's always been this one thing that I don't really understand. in the game, we are told that the Robed Figure passed on the ability to time travel to Young Xehanort, so that Young Xehanort doesn't have to get rid of his body or something like that. I was confused as to how you can just simply "give" someone the ability to time travel, so I looked into it. I found a Nomura interview where he says this: "to transcend time one must ‘first’ discard their form. As a result of the actions of the Brown Robed Figure, they all were in a state where they had gained the power to transcend time. The Brown Robed Figure explains the facts. The thirteen were summoned at the same time, this time thanks to Young Xehanort who borrowed that power."
What does this mean exactly? Am I the only one who has no idea what he's saying here? Could it be the translation that's making it more confusing that it actually is, because I'm not sure what he's trying to say? It seems like he's saying that they all gained the ability to time travel because the Robed Figure was Xehanort reduced to just a heart, but how does that make it so they all have the ability to time travel? Sora and Riku have both been reduced to just a heart before, but they can't just randomly time travel as they please, they need Yen Sid's magic in order to time travel. I thought that you actually need to be a heart while you're time travelling, because that's what Yen Sid said, but Nomura's making it sound like all you need to do in order to be able to time travel is you have to have been just a heart once in your lifetime. That seems way too OP. Plus, it completely contradicts what Yen Sid said. Since this is the case, it makes me believe that's not really what Nomura's saying here, so is there any other way to interpret what he's saying?
EDIT: After doing some more digging, I found this in the KH Ultimania:
"Discarded his body and became able to travel through time.
Traveled back in time to the Destiny Islands and gave Young Xehanort some of his own power.
Due to discarding his body and becoming the Robed Figure, all incarnations of Xehanort gained the ability to travel through time. However, the only ones actually able to do so were the Robed Figure and the one he had given his power to, Young Xehanort."
I guess it sort of works like how Keyblades work. Just because you have the ability to wield a Keyblade, doesn't mean you have a Keyblade/doesn't mean you know how to summon a Keyblade.. Similarly, just because you have the ability to time travel, doesn't mean you can time travel/doesn't mean you know how to time travel. And what the game really meant by "the Robed Figure gave Young Xehanort the ability to travel through time" is "the Robed Figure shared some of his powers with Young Xehanort".
So, it all makes sense...I guess? It "makes sense" in a very Kingdom Heartsy kind of way lol
EDIT: Just found this interview with Nomura. What he says he throws me back into confusion:
"Nomura: First off, when Young Xehanort made contact with the Brown Robed Figure, that is to say, the Xehanort who called himself Ansem, his abilities were transferred to him. As a result of Master Xehanort tossing his physical body, he was able to exceed time, and this power was carried into the Brown Robed Figure. Thus when Young Xehanort made contact with him, he gained this power. Possessing this power. Young Xehanort functioned as a “portal”, summoning Xemnas and Ansem each time they appeared. That’s why Young Xehanort was there whenever they appeared. Additionally, when Sora and Riku dropped into the worlds of sleep, simultaneously Young Xehanort himself goes into the world of sleep.'
I have no idea what Nomura is saying at this point. I really really really hope this gets cleared up in KH3.

Kingdom Hearts series director Tetsuya Nomura sent out a message to all Kingdom Hearts fans, wishing everybody a happy holiday season! Despite being ashamed of his bed hair and wearing a hat to cover it, Nomura talked about the upcoming Kingdom Hearts HD 2.8 Final Chapter Prologue, the 15th anniversary of Kingdom Hearts, the upcoming Kingdom Hearts HD 1.5 + 2.5 Remix (which Nomura almost mistakenly called 1.8), and a possible new development in Kingdom Hearts Unchained x.
What do you guys think about this video? Let us know in the comments!
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Hey there everyone, how's it going!? So then, as you all know, it's been a good, long while, about 9 months, give or take, since we were bombarded with Kingdom Hearts III news at every turn! And well, ever since then, things have been a little quiet, so I decided to bring up this topic from an interview with Nomura from last year!
So, last year, Nomura stated that he had already decided on a release date for Kingdom Hearts III, but that he couldn't announce it yet! And well, ever since then, I've been wondering about it, ya know? I mean, he probably wouldn't have decided on a release date if the game was still way too far off for us! So I'm just thinking that he's waiting for the right time to give us said release date, and I think it could be this year! At the beginning of this year, Nomura mentioned that Kingdom Hearts III is in an important stage of development, and that could very well mean that a lot more is being done this year as we speak! I think that perhaps this year we'll get the release date for the game, or at the very least, a release window! E3 sounds like a reasonable place to make the announcement, but I could also see the release date being revealed at the Tokyo Game Show, or perhaps even Jump Festa, ya know? But hey, this is all just speculation!
So what do you think? Could we get a "Coming 2017" release window this year? And if so, do you think it'll be at E3, the Tokyo Game Show, or Jump Festa?

In a recent interview with Nomura; he revealed what I believe to be two major and one minor things very Interesting and odd. Firstly when questioned about the new nobody in the new trailer ( which is alluding towards Marluxia) he responded with the first of the Major details- that the character will be revealed in promotional material in the near future; so does that suggest we'll see Marluxia in a trailer soon?
Secondly and the main theme of this discussion is that it looks like certain enemies eg the Marluxia nobody will reveal what characters have been to that specific world, now going back to KH2; this isn't exactly new eg Dragoon nobodies were present in Beast's Castle were Xaldin was; however this time around could the enemies we face foreshadow the I'll dub it ' external enemy' we'll encounter at each world? If not abused or too obvious; then this could actually be very well used; I mean just because we might not see the ' external threat' firsthand; the fact they'll have been there makes it obvious to us both as Sora and as players the individual threat we'll face in each world and in terms of gameplay how to prepare ourselves for an encounter with the ' external threat' or even as I wouldn't actually mind have the ' external threat alluded to throughout the world and making us paranoid of the encounter only to reveal at the end the threat has moved on and thus making us move on too almost a cat and mouse game until the fated final clash. It could be another way of building uo the Keyblade war and revealing what is at stake
Finally; the minor detail is other enemy types such as Unversed ( dream eaters too though I doubt they'll return) are being considered so linking back to the original theme could unversed in specific worlds reveal the workings of Vanitas yet again?
Thanks for reading; it's good to be back here again after being gone for ages

What happens when you put two heroes together? THIS!
Warning: Kingdom Hearts and Fullmetal Alchemist are both licensed by Square-Enix. The secondary licenses for both franchises are Disney (Kingdom Hearts), Aniplex, Bones Inc., and Funimation (Fullmetal Alchemist).
PS: There will be spoilers.

Does that mean he's just as evil as Xehanort? Or does he mean he likes Xehanort as a character but the translator mistranslated it? I can't understand that line in that interview and I feel kinda confused and odd about it. Sorry if I'm missing something. I like Nomura as a director so no offense intended ;-) Just asking.